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Students and activists gathered outside Apple's flagship store in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong, on Tuesday to protest what they claim to be 'poor working conditions' in Apple factories in China.

Recent investigations in 2012 by New York-based China Labor Watch found that working conditions in factories suppliers to Apple in southern and eastern China uncovered violations of workers' rights, including excessive overtime and low wages.

One protester dressed as an Apple worker was seen crawling along with floor, leaving bloody marks while holding a sign reading 'iPad mini iSlavery...

A two-day summit into higher education has been met with student protests in Quebec, Canada. The summit is currently underway at the Arsenal art gallery, in Griffintown.

In accordance with a 4 February ultimatum to the education minister Pierre Duchesne, the student federation Association pour une solidarité syndical étudiante (ASSÉ) - which represents approximately 70,000 Quebec students - will not attend the summit, and is hosting a protest against student fee increases. ASSÉ decided to boycott the summit after their ultimatums to Duchesne were not met.

The federation’s...

South African Olympic and Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius, who stands accused of murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, has been released on bail by Magistrate Desmond Nair.

Pistorius denies murder, saying he shot Reeva Steenkamp thinking she was an intruder at his home.

Reeva Steenkamp, 29, was a model and law graduate with a burgeoning television career.

The prosecution argued that bail should be refused because there was a risk Mr Pistorius, 26, would abscond, however Nair, who took almost two hours to deliver his judgement, said the state had not been able...

The lives of 95 babies could be saved every hour – 830,000 a year – if new mothers around the world breastfed immediately after giving birth, Save the Children have said.

In a new report, Superfood for Babies , the charity says that if babies receive colostrum – the mother’s first milk – within an hour of birth, it will kick start the child’s immune system, making them three times more likely to survive. And, if the mother continues feeding for the next six months, then a child growing up in the developing world is up to 15 times less likely to die from killer diseases like...